Meenakshi Mannoe & Kit Rothschild want City of Vancouver to reinvest 50% of the police budget into community-led crisis response and peer-led systems of care.
Researcher and policy analyst Chuka Ejeckam distinguishes public safety from police spending, as these concepts are often conflated.
Nicole Luongo outlines the pitfalls of the “Complex Care housing” model that is widely-touted by provincial and municipal governments in BC
Read an update on Pivot’s decriminalization advocacy and our conditions for supporting and providing input on a made-in-BC model.
The Coalition of Peers Dismantling the War on Drugs, VANDU and Pivot recognize “Homelessness Action Week 2021”
The Vancouver Police Department is doubling down on the Trespass Prevention Program by expanding it, despite concerns.
We are going to the Supreme Court of BC to fight for Drug War Survivors right to have a space of their own in Surrey.
Black and Indigenous women in the Downtown Eastside in conversation about the Impacts of the drug poisoning crisis.
"Motion B2 assumes that policing is best-suited to respond to a myriad of social and economic issues, rather than grappling with what interventions could be made available through defunding police and investing in community-led crisis intervention."
Our 2020 Annual Report is out. You can read about our campaigns and public legal education efforts during an exceptionally difficult year of multiple public health crises.